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jv A Message frotn the President 

The little book which is herewith presented is 
intended as a statement to the alumni of the gen- 
eral situation of the University at this time. It 
is hoped that they will all find it of interest and 
that many will see a marked difference between 
the Quadrangles as they knew them and the Quad- 
rangles as they are today. Moreover the Univer- 
sity is not stationary. There are distinct and 
large plans for the future. From the beginning 
the University has looked far forward and it has 
in the main realized its aims. We are confident 
that the present dreams will become actual in the 
not distant future. 

The large body of alumni, of course, comprises 
chiefly those who have not yet reached middle life. 
Of the total number of degrees conferred, three 
thousand and forty-two were given in the period 
ending with 1905. Ten thousand seven hundred 
and seventy-nine have been given in the second 
fifteen-year period of the University history. 

This makes it plain that the University of 
Chicago is on a totally different basis from many 
other universities of older foundation. The num- 
ber of alumni who have reached more than middle 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

fortunes on a considerable scale is necessarily with 
us very small. It cannot be expected that in the 
immediate future our alumni may do the large 
things for the University which have been done 
and which are daily being done for certain older 
institutions. The large needs now before the Uni- 
versity must in the main be met from other sources. 
At the same time the generous interest which 
our alumni have so often manifested is deeply 
appreciated and is encouraging for the future. 

It is believed that no institution has a more 
loyal body of alumni than ours. The Alumni 
Council which represents the alumni body and 
which has in hand the various alumni interests, is 
a very active and efficient organ and in its plans 
and policies is looking forward alertly to the 
future. 

The University extends cordial greetings to all 
its alumni everywhere, and will always rejoice in 
their successes and have sympathy for their diffi- 
culties. It is the distinct view of all of us that 
the University exists not merely on the Midway, 
but wherever its alumni are doing the active work 
of the world; and we believe that the lessons of 
their student life will make an essential part of 
the power with which they perform their duties 
of citizenship in any part of the world. 

Harry Pratt Judson 

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

IN 1921 

Aims and Qrowth 

THE University of Chicago is now in its 
thirtieth year. It is still the youngest of 
great American universities. But it has 
matriculated 87,000 students; it has graduated 
10,000 Bachelors, 2,000 Masters, 1,200 Doctors of 
Philosophy, and 600 Doctors of Law. It has an 
annual enrolment of 11,000 students; it has a 
library of almost 1,000,000 books and assets 
aggregating $50,000,000. 

Other universities are of course older, larger, or 
richer; but Chicago has been in many ways a 
pioneer in American education. It was the first 
to offer regular university work through the 
Summer Quarter, and still while most university 
campuses are drowsing, deserted, in summer 
sunshine, Chicago's quadrangles are humming with 
5,000 of the most eager students of the year. It 
was Chicago that first made physical culture and 
athletics a regular division of the university, 
and gave the head of it the rank of a university 
professor, a policy which has done much for 
American college athletics. Chicago was the 

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first university in the United States to establish 
a university press, and all the leading American 
universities have since followed its example. 
Chicago owes much to other universities, at 
home and abroad, but it has in its turn made a 
distinct contribution to American university 
organization and ideals. 

One thinks instinctively of almost every 
American university as dominated either by its 
graduate work or its undergraduate life, as the 
case may be. At Chicago the effort has been to 
let neither factor eclipse the other, but to main- 
tain both in a wholesome equilibrium. Along with 
this has gone the kindred policy of stimulating 
both teaching and research among the members 
of all the departments. This has had the double 
effect of keeping the University teaching fresh 
and modern and of developing proficiency in 
investigation in an unusually large proportion 
of the teaching staff. The University has given 
further encouragment to such research by conduct- 
ing scholarly and scientific journals for the inter- 
change of new ideas and discoveries. Perhaps 
nowhere in America has greater encouragement 
been given to scientific publication, and the 
massive lists of publications of members of the 
Faculties which formed part of the decennial 
and again of the quarter-centennial publications 
give evidence of the result. 

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The University has from the first welcomed 
women both as students and as teachers. At 
the very beginning of its work, one of its most 
respected and beloved figures was Alice Free- 
man Palmer, the Dean of Women, and among 
the University's benefactors women have been 
conspicuous. Residence halls for women, all 
given by women, were among the first buildings 
erected; while the feature of the quarter- 
centennial celebration was the dedication of 
Ida Noyes Hall, with its clubhouse, refectory, and 
gymnasium for women. 

The University of 192 1 is of course very differ- 
ent from that of 1892. It then enrolled 700 
students; now it has 11,000. It then consisted 
of the Colleges, the Graduate Schools of Arts, 
Literature, and Science, and the Divinity School. 
To these have been added, one by one, six other 
colleges or schools. In 1898 was founded the 
College of Commerce and Administration, which 
developed in 1902 into the School of that name. 
The year 1900 saw the organization of University 
College, which now enrols eighteen hundred 
students annually in its afternoon, evening, 
and Saturday classes. Rush Medical College 
had been affiliated in 1898, and in 1901 the 
Medical Courses were organized by the bring- 
ing of its first- and second-year work to the 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

was established, continuing the work of the 
Chicago Institute. The University has in the 
School of Education one of the two completely 
organized educational laboratories in the world. 
In 1902 the Law School was established, and the 
standards embodied in it have had an important 
influence in the improvement of legal education 
in the Middle West. In 1920 the University 
added the Graduate School of Social Service 
Administration, in continuation of the work of 
the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. 
The work of the Divinity School has also expanded 
through the affihation of the Disciples' Divinity 
House in 1894, the Ryder Universalist House in 
191 1, and the Chicago Theological Seminary 
(Congregational) in 191 5. 

With the leading events of the University's 
first quarter-century its friends are famihar. 
One of the last of these was the gift of two hundred 
thousand dollars for the much needed Theology 
Building, which was afterward increased to three 
hundred thousand dollars and supplemented by 
Mrs. Joseph Bond's gift of fifty thousand for the 
Divinity Chapel. A little later, too late in fact 
for inclusion in the quarter-centennial History of 
the University, came the great Williams gift of 
more than two million dollars, which has been 
assigned to the maintenance of the School of 
Commerce and Administration. The Williams 




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gift was wholly unsolicited and was a complete 
surprise to the President and Trustees. Mr. 
Hobart W. Williams wished to make a contribu- 
tion to education in memory of his parents who 
had lived for many years in Chicago, and what 
he knew of the University led him to make it the 
object of his liberality. 

The Last Five Years 

The second quarter-century was auspiciously 
begun by the successful conduct of the largest 
single financial campaign in the University's 
history thus far, the Medical Fund. The Presi- 
dent and the Trustees undertook on November 8, 
1 91 6, to secure for medical work the sum of five 
miUion three hundred thousand dollars, and 
within six months five million four hundred and 
sixty-one thousand dollars had been raised. 
It was only our entry into war that prevented 
the immediate execution of the broad plans this 
fund makes possible. As it is, the medical pro- 
gram is now part of what President Judson 
has termed the "Program in Suspense." 

In the summer of 191 8 Mr. La Verne Noyes, 
the donor of Ida Noyes Hall, presented to the 
University property which is estimated at about 
two milKon dollars for the estabHshment of 
scholarships for those who had served under the 
American flag in the Great War, and for their 

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descendants. This generous and patriotic gift 
called forth nation-wide interest and has already 
influenced many similar benefactions. Hundreds 
of men are now enjoying its benefits. 

The University in the War 
Mr. Noyes made his great gift when the war 
was at its height. From the day the United 
States entered that struggle the activities of the 
University were more and more turned into 
war channels. Many students and professors 
put on khaki immediately and found their places 
in officers' training camps or in war preparations 
at Washington. The laboratories of the Uni- 
versity were promptly put at the disposal of 
the Government for experiment and research. 
R.O.T.C. companies, one of them made up 
of Faculty men, including the President, drilled 
daily on Stagg Field. The University announced 
that all men of the city and neighborhood who 
wished to come to the Field in the evenings 
would receive free military instruction and drill, 
and hundreds of men responded and got their 
first military experience drilling there by electric 
light. A beautiful stand of colors was after- 
ward presented to the University by these men, 
most of whom became officers as a result of this 
training, and all of whom were sooner and better 
prepared for service than they would otherwise 
have been. 

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The story of the University in the war has not 
yet been written and is too long for inclusion here. 
The President of the University was Chairman 
of one of the appeal boards in connection with the 
first draft in 191 7, and made an arduous journey 
to Persia in 191 8 as Chairman of the Commission 
on Relief in the Near East, and with a special 
unofficial mission for the Government. Members 
of the Faculties and of the Board of Trustees 
found their way into every form of service with 
the army, the navy, the Red Cross, or the 
Y.M.C.A. Many were active in Washington 
throughout the war. More served in France. 
Our men of science worked effectively upon the 
rationing, instruction, transportation, protection, 
and health of our soldiers, while the invention of 
the Michelson range-finder, adopted by the 
navy, and the discovery by a University Ph.D., 
of Lewisite, one of the deadliest poison gases of 
the war, show that on the offensive side they 
were equally successful. Relief expeditions to 
Persia, Russia, and Roumania were led by 
University of Chicago men, and one member of 
the Faculties in 1 918-19 visited every one of the 
warring countries, as an expert for the American 
ReHef Administration and the Children's ReHef 
Bureau. 

The war record of the alumni and students of 
the University is even more impressive. They 

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were in every field and on every sea. Chicago 
men fell at Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, and St. 
Mihiel, and in the Argonne campaign. They 
laid down their lives in German prisons, with the 
Army of Occupation, and even in Mesopotamia. 
Four thousand three hundred and fifty-five alumni 
and former students are known to have been in 
service. Nine hundred and sixty-six won com- 
missions. Seventy-two gave up their lives. At 
least twenty-five received conspicuous honors. 
In the air service four of the American aces were 
University of Chicago men. It must be a 
noble and distinguished memorial that shall some 
day in the Quadrangles of the University fitly 
commemorate the service of these men in the war. 

The S.A.T.C. 

Nothing brought the war home to the Univer- 
sity so forcibly as the institution of the S.A.T.C. 
The Student Army Training Corps was organized 
at the University on October i, 1918, in response 
to the appeal of the War Department calling 
upon the colleges and universities to place their 
resources at the service of the Government for the 
rapid training of young men for service as officers 
in the new army. All the men's dormitories in 
the University were converted into barracks. 
The second floor of the grandstand on Stagg Field 
was inclosed and equipped with steam heat and 

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electric light and thus made into large barracks 
rooms. In addition to these provisions six fra- 
ternity houses on University and Woodlawn 
avenues were leased. Hutchinson Hall and 
the dining-room and gymnasium of Lexington 
Hall were used for mess halls, and the reading- 
rooms of Harper Memorial Library, the Law 
School, and other University buildings were 
set apart as halls for supervised study. The men 
were put into uniform as rapidly as possible and 
their daily drills and their practice of marching to 
and from mess and study halls gave the University 
during that quarter a thoroughly martial aspect. 
The necessary requirement in the way of daily drill 
naturally interfered with the doing of their student 
work, however, and there was a very general relief 
in the University when, soon after the Armistice 
was declared on November ii, the Student Army 
Training Corps was discontinued and on Decem- 
ber 20 the last men of the Corps were released from 
service. 

While the Student Army Training Corps 
experiment lasted hardly long enough to be 
thoroughly tested as an emergency measure, 
the response of the University to the call of the 
Government in placing its buildings, equipment, 
and Faculties at the service of the War Depart- 
ment was one which stirred the hearts of the 
whole University community. 

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The University after the War 

As with most institutions of learning the Uni- 
versity's enrolment was much reduced during 
the war and much increased after it. The 
attendance for the Autumn Quarter, 1920, was the 
largest in the University's history, 5,993. All 
University sports have resumed their usual place in 
student life. The baseball team made an extended 
and successful trip to Japan last spring. The 
football games never drew such crowds as last 
autumn. Basket-ball, swimming, cross-country 
running, track, tennis, and other sports are being 
assiduously pursued. Student social life is likewise 
busy. The Re3niolds Club has about one thou- 
sand members. The fraternities and women's 
clubs are numerous and active. Ida Noyes Hall is 
crowded with women's activities. The Under- 
graduate Council, the Honor Commission, the 
Campus Club, the W.A.A., the Federation of Uni- 
versity Women, the Poetry Club, the musical and 
dramatic clubs, and the Christian associations are 
steadily at work. The Daily Maroon, the Phoenix, 
Chanticleer, and Cap and Gown engage the under- 
graduate journalistic and literary talents. 

The more serious labors of the classroom and 
the laboratory are less easy to chronicle. But the 
extraordinary success of the Michelson inter- 
ferometer method of determining the diameter 

of the stars is still fresh in the public mind, 

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and the recent appointment of a well-known 
alumnus, David AUan Robertson, as Dean of the 
Colleges is evidence that undergraduate problems 
are receiving their full share of attention. 

The Program in Suspense 

The great fund secured by the University in 
1916-17 for medical development is intended to 
provide three things. First, the establishment 
in the Quadrangles of the University of a medical 
school of the highest grade. It is to be a strictly 
graduate school: everyone Who enters it must 
have secured a Bachelor's degree. The course 
will cover four years in medicine and will lead 
to the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The 
University is not undertaking to provide for an 
enrolment of more than three hundred and fifty in 
this school. Its aim is to train a limited number 
of selected students for the medical profession 
in the best possible way. 

A second feature of the medical program is 
the establishment of the Rush Graduate Medical 
School, near the Presbyterian Hospital, as a grad- 
uate medical school for practitioners, that is, 
for those who already have the degree of M.D. 
This school will train specialists and will further 
extend medical knowledge among men who have 
already been in medical practice. 

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A third feature of the plan is the very extended 
provision for special research effected by arrange- 
ments for close co-operation with the Presby- 
terian Hospital, the John McCormick Memorial 
Institute for Infectious Diseases, and the Otho 
S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute. 

It was for this great medical program that the 
University secured in 1 916-17 nearly five and a 
half million dollars. Of this amount fourteen 
hundred thousand dollars were to be spent in new 
buildings. The entry of the United States into 
the Great War necessarily postponed the erection 
of these buildings, and consequently the organiza- 
tion of the Medical School. As building condi- 
tions improve, however, the University will take 
up the erection of these buildings and the exe- 
cution of this whole medical program. 

The larger of the proposed medical buildings 
will be that comprising the Albert Merritt Billings 
Hospital, for which the Billings family has pro- 
vided one million dollars, and the Max Epstein 
Dispensary, for which Mr. and Mrs. Epstein 
gave one hundred thousand dollars. Plans for 
this structure are now being completed by Cool- 
idge and Hodgdon. The building will be located 
on the south side of the Midway Plaisance. It 
will include a hospital with two hundred and 
fifty beds, a dispensary, laboratories for Pathology 
and Bacteriology, and a library to which Dr. 

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Frank Billings has contributed his own medical 
collection. 

While the training of candidates for the degree 
of M.D. at the University will be carried on in 
part in the existing biological laboratories and in 
part in this great new building, for graduate work 
for medical practitioners at Rush and the Presby- 
terian Hospital provision will be made in the 
Rawson Laboratory for which three hundred 
thousand dollars have been provided by Mr. and 
Mrs. Frederick H. Rawson. 

The medical building program, large as it is, 
is only a part of the University building program, 
the execution of which has thus far been prevented 
by the war and the industrial conditions that 
followed it. In 1918 Mr. Andrew MacLeish, the 
Vice-President of the Board of Trustees, gave the 
University one hundred thousand dollars to be 
used for the erection of a building, preferably for 
administration. The gifts already described of 
three hundred thousand dollars for the Theology 
Building and of fifty thousand dollars for a 
Divinity Chapel, now increased by accumulated 
interest to nearly four hundred thousand dollars, 
have not yet been applied to the erection of these 
buildings. Plans have been completed, however, 
by Coolidge and Hodgdon and as soon as building 
conditions become at all favorable this beautiful 
group will be erected. The Theology Building 

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is to stand directly north of Haskell Museum, 
facing Kent Chemical Laboratory and forming 
with Rosenwald and Walker the south side of the 
Great Quadrangle. It will complete the Harper 
Court, and the adjoining Divinity Chapel will form 
the main feature on the north side of the Graduate 
Quadrangle between Haskell and the Divinity halls. 

In preparation for the erection of the Uni- 
versity Chapel on the block between Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth streets and University 
and Woodlawn avenues, the University purchased 
the building and property of the Quadrangle 
Club, undertaking to erect a new clubhouse at 
University Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street at 
an expense of one hundred thousand dollars. 
Very attractive plans for a clubhouse have been 
prepared by Mr. Howard Shaw. The increased 
cost of building has led the University to increase 
its proposed expenditure for this purpose to one 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, members 
and friends of the Club providing fifty thousand 
dollars in addition. As soon as the building 
can be erected for approximately two hundred 
thousand dollars work upon the new clubhouse 
will begin. 

Ten years ago Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the 
founder, in his final gift of ten million dollars set 
apart one million five hundred thousand dollars 
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available and plans drawn by Bertram G. Good- 
hue are well advanced. The plan provides for a 
stately and beautiful Gothic building with a 
seating capacity of a little more than two thou- 
sand. It is to be erected on the Woodlawn 
Avenue side of the block on which the President's 
House stands, fronting the Midway but set back 
more than a hundred feet from the line of Fifty- 
ninth Street. The present plan includes a mas- 
sive tower two hundred and sixteen feet in height 
above the crossing, which will be the dominating 
feature of the Quadrangles. In no long time this 
Chapel, which is to be one of the most impressive 
buildings of its kind, will take its place among the 
stately structures of the University. With the 
Billings Hospital on the south side of the Midway 
and the University Chapel almost opposite it on 
the north side, the University will make a wholly 
new impression on those who view it from the 
Plaisance. The University's possession of the 
Midway frontage continuously for three-quarters 
of a mile on both sides of the boulevard gives it 
an extraordinary opportunity for architectural 
development, and the Midway of the future, 
lined on both sides with such buildings as Ida 
Noyes Hall, the Harper Memorial Library, the 
University Chapel, and the Billings Hospital, 
promises to be one of the statliest academic 
avenues in the world. 

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The Five-Year Program 

The plans of the University for development 
in the near future are not confined to what has 
just been sketched as "The Program in Suspense." 
At the June Convocation, 1920, the President 
outlined a program of what the University ought 
to accomplish in the next five years. In 191 9 
the Board of Trustees assigned income repre- 
senting two million dollars of endowment to 
salary increases for members of the Faculties. 
Again in 1920 the Board authorized a further 
increase of a like amount in professors' salaries. 
This rapid advance of the salary scale makes the 
maximum which may be reached by a professor 
in Arts, Literature, Science, or Education equal 
to that provided in any American university. 
But to provide it permanently without hamper- 
ing funds needed for other purposes calls for the 
addition to the University's endowment of four 
million doUars. 

A second feature of the Five- Year Program 
is the development of the Graduate Schools. 
Without reducing the pursuit of pure science in 
the Graduate Faculties the University feels that 
it can also conduct in connection with the Gradu- 
ate Schools many types of research which should 
have an immediate bearing on the application of 
science to industry, and for the conduct of such 
research it purposes to organize within the Gradu- 

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ate Schools a series of Institutes. In these the 
basic principles of pure science involved in 
important problems of society and its industries 
will be investigated and extended. The first 
Institute will be that of Physics and Chemistry. 
It will require a building and equipment which 
will cost four hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
and an endowment which at the outset should be 
one million. 

A second Institute is to be that of Plant 
Agriculture. Its purpose will be the advance- 
ment of the science of agriculture in the matters 
of plant production and protection, a field in 
which many important fundamental problems 
are as yet untouched. The Institute will also 
train men in the fundamental science of agricul- 
ture for positions in agricultural colleges and 
experiment stations. Such advanced work in 
these fields is nowhere being done in any adequate 
way and will be warmly welcomed by those inter- 
ested in agricultural science and education. 
To establish this Institute will require at the 
outset one hundred thousand dollars for equip- 
ment and seven hundred thousand dollars for 
endowment. 

A third Institute is that of Mining, to be con- 
ducted by the Department of Geology with the 
assistance of the Departments of Physics, Chem- 
istry, and Geography. It will not duplicate the 

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excellent undergraduate work now being done in 
the schools of Mining and Engineering, but will 
confine itself to advanced work like that of the 
other Institutes. To establish it will require an 
endowment of three hundred thousand dollars. 

A fourth Institute will be that of the Science of 
Education. It will be designed to conduct 
research in the science of education and to train 
students and supervisors in such research. This 
will call for a new endowment of one million 
dollars and the erection of the three buildings 
which the School of Education requires for its 
completion; one for the Graduate Department, 
one for the Secondary School, and one for a 
gymnasium. Seven hundred thousand dollars 
should provide these buildings. 

It wiU be seen that the establishment of the 
Institutes caUs for new endowments to the 
amount of three million dollars, while for new 
buildings to accommodate them a total of one 
million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
will be necessary. 

These are, of course, only a part of the Uni- 
versity's needs for buildings. The University 
Library is growing with extraordinary rapidity. 
It now contains nearly eight hundred thousand 
volumes and two hundred thousand pamphlets, 
a total of almost one million titles, making it in 
size probably the third university library in 

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America. The needs of the Library, as well as 
the need of classrooms for the historical and social 
sciences and the modern language departments, 
call for the completion at the earliest possible 
day of the Harper Library Group by the erection 
of the buildings planned in 191 2 to flank the 
Harper Memorial Library on the east and west. 
The administrative work of the University is 
scattered through several buildings in offices often 
not adapted to it, and a convenient and dignified 
administration building should be erected. The 
housing question is increasingly serious as the 
number of students increases and there is a great 
demand for dormitories. The Board of Trus- 
tees has directed the Committee on Buildings 
and Grounds to secure plans for residence halls 
for women to inclose the northern half of the 
block containing Ida Noyes Hall. Residence 
halls for men should be erected on the blocks 
west of Cobb Hall. It is evident that to meet 
the most pressing of these building needs will 
require not less than one million seven hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars. 

These plans of salary increase. Institutes, and- 
new buildings, therefore, require seven million 
dollars for endowment and three million dollars 
for building, a total of ten miUion dollars which 
the University proposes to secure within a period 
of five years. 

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The University Commissions 
The great purposes of a university can only 
be accomplished through the fullest co-operation 
between its alumni, Trustees, professors, and 
friends. To effect this co-operation the Uni- 
versity in October, 1920, undertook to establish 
the University Commissions. There are to be 
fourteen of these, one for each of the main groups 
of University interest. On each Commission 
will be two alumni, a University Trustee, two 
members of the Faculty immediately concerned, 
and two or more other citizens to be appointed by 
the President of the Board upon the recommenda- 
tion of the President of the University. It will 
be seen that on each Commission there will be 
represented four important groups — alumni. Trus- 
tees, Faculties, and citizens not already ofhcially 
related to the University. The President of the 
University will be an ex officio member of each 
Commission. 

The duty of each Commission will be to study 
the work of its particular school or group of 
interests and make occasional suggestions to the 
Board of Trustees as to the manner of improving 
the work of the school or group. Each Com- 
mission is to meet at least once a quarter except- 
ing in the summer and is to hold at least one 
meeting each year with the whole teaching force 
of the educational group with which it deals. 

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In the Spring Quarter there will also be one 
joint meeting of all the Commissions with the 
Board of Trustees. 

Commissions are to be appointed for the fol- 
lowing interests: the Law School; the Medical 
School; the Graduate Medical School; the Divinity 
School; the School of Education; the School of 
Commerce and Administration; the Colleges of 
Arts, Literature, and Science; Women's Interests ; 
the Historical Group ; Modern Languages; Classi- 
cal Languages; Physics, Chemistry, and Mathe- 
matics; Geology and Geography; the Biological 
Sciences. 

The Commissions will greatly stimulate Uni- 
versity work by bringing Faculty and Trustees 
together and by actively relating representative 
alumni and other citizens with the work and 
organization of the University. Not only will 
more and more alumni be brought into active 
relations with the University, but more and more 
of the representative citizens of Chicago and 
the Central West, so many of whom have testi- 
fied their interest in the University by great gifts 
to its resources. 

With this new integration of the members of 
the University with the alumni and with the com- 
munity which the Commissions plan promises; 
with the new and broader service to the com- 
munity which the organization of the Institutes 

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will insure; with the provision for the new salary 
scale which will properly maintain the teaching 
staff; with the great medical schools already 
assured; and with a building program provided 
or projected which may fairly be described as 
magnificent, the University enters its fourth 
decade with a promise of widening service which 
must stir its sons and daughters and inspire it 
friends. 

The University and the Alumni 

It is not the policy of the University to call 
upon its alumni to meet deficits or to help in 
carrying its current expenses. But this does 
not mean that it does not depend upon their 
co-operation. The good name of the University 
is to a large extent in their hands, and their 
honorable and creditable records in war or 
peace are the greatest of its assets. The Uni- 
versity is proud that the presidents of the Uni- 
versity of California, Clark University, and the 
Rockefeller Foundation are among its alumni, 
and believes that all its graduates who in industry, 
science, education, or public service are faith- 
fully at work are serving the University well. 

The University is still in its youth, its period 
of expansion and equipment. For these it asks 
great sums, which to a body of alumni few of 

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whom are as much as fifty years old, perhaps 
look discouraging. But the needs of the Uni- 
versity are so various that every graduate who 
wants to do so can find one to care for. Many 
of the alumni have already done this. Medals, 
prizes, scholarships, lectureships, professorships, 
portraits, and libraries have been given by indi- 
vidual alumni or alumni groups. Hundreds of 
alumni contributed to the erection of the Harper 
Memorial Library in 191 2, and to the portrait 
of Mr. Stagg that now hangs in the Trophy 
Room. 

A survey was recently made of the accomplish- 
ments and the needs of the various departments. 
Most of them announced a need of books. Just 
now especially there are extraordinary oppor- 
tunities for the purchase of rare and valuable 
books and collections of books, in Europe and 
America. Sometimes the opportunity comes — 
and goes — ^by cable; for it is a matter of hours. 
The library with the ready money is the one 
that can take advantage of these opportunities 
in manuscripts, incunabula, and modern books. 
The University Libraries are open the year around. 
Last year one million readers were recorded as 
using them, besides those who read and left no 
record. This means that ten thousand students 
used the Libraries an average of one hundred 
times each in the course of the year. 

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But if a graduate cares more about doing for 
people than paying for books, there is a great 
need at the University for scholarship funds. 
The gift of fifty or seventy-five dollars to provide 
for one quarter the tuition fees of a young man 
or woman who is making a gallant fight to get a 
college education and is working seven nights 
and two afternoons in the week to do it, is as 
good a use as a man can make of the money. 
The University needs scholarships to help such 
self-supporting students through college. 

For graduate students the University needs 
fellowships. Thirty years ago our fellowships 
of three hundred and twenty dollars and ^ve 
hundred and twenty dollars were eagerly sought. 
Now, after paying tuition, no student can live 
on one. A beginning has been made especially 
in the new Medical Fund of research fellowships 
of one thousand dollars and one thousand two 
hundred dollars. There is great need of more 
such provision for graduate students. 

For really advanced work in history and liter- 
ature the material in many cases cannot be brought 
to the student; he must go where it is to be found, 
in distant libraries and museums, at home or 
abroad. Traveling fellowships are greatly needed 
for this purpose. 

Many departments need money for publica- 
tion. They cannot pubHsh the results of their 

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investigations for want of funds. Increased 
costs of printing make the eleven University 
journals more and more expensive to produce. 
The journals have meant a great deal to the 
progress of science and scholarship in this country. 
They should be increased and strengthened. 
Yet the University is facing a serious task even 
in maintaining them. Each journal needs an 
endowment fund to assure its future. Many 
graduate students upon passing their Doctor's 
examination find that to publish their theses as 
the rule of the University requires will cost them 
^ve hundred dollars, or often considerably more 
— an expenditure for which at the end of ten 
years of study they are poorly prepared. A fund 
for publication would relieve such cases. 

The release of the Near East from Turkish 
control has opened many important seats of the 
ancient world to excavation for the first time. 
The University has been quick to observe this 
and to act upon it, and in 1919-20 organized the 
Oriental Institute and sent an expedition to 
Egypt and Mesopotamia under the charge of its 
experts in Egyptology and Assyriology. The 
adventures of the expedition read like the Arabian 
Nights, and its acquisitions secured with funds 
given for the purpose by various interested 
friends, will make the Oriental collections of 
Haskell Museum of unique value and interest. 

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The further work of the Institute in expeditions 
and excavations will depend upon the support it 
receives from its friends. 

The Department of Geology is very anxious to 
establish a Field School of Geology to be con- 
ducted in the summer, as soon as an endowment 
fund for the purpose can be secured. The 
Department of Geography is prepared to organize 
expeditions for geographical research as soon as 
funds are available for them, and one member of 
the Department, an alumnus of the University, 
is now on a geographical expedition to Asia. 

The use that may be made of great scientific 
equipments by able men of science has just been 
brilliantly illustrated by the successful measure- 
ment on December 13, 1920, at the Mount 
Wilson Observatory of the diameter of the giant 
star Betelgeuze by a method devised by Professor 
Michelson, which has shown the diameter of this 
star to be nearly three hundred million miles, or 
three hundred times that of the sun. The 
measurement was made by the use of a twenty- 
foot interferometer (an instrument the invention 
of which is one of Professor Michelson' s scientific 
achievements), in connection with the Mount 
Wilson hundred-inch telescope. 

Zoology asks means to equip a museum in the 
Hull Zoological Laboratory for its undergraduate 
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vivarium for the study of the behavior and 
transformation of hving forms would importantly 
improve the Department's facilities for research. 
This could be provided for thirty or forty thousand 
dollars. 

Botany is in great need of an experimental 
botanic garden, with a research laboratory and 
suitable greenhouses. This might be located on 
the block at Fifty-ninth Street and Cottage 
Grove Avenue. Our present lack of such equip- 
ment compels many research students to go 
elsewhere to find it. 

Few alumni realize that the University's 
astronomical equipment at the Yerkes Observa- 
tory is one of the most remarkable in the world. 
A glance at the full-page illustrations of it in the 
Encyclopaedia Britannica^s article "Telescope" 
wiU show what scientific men think of it. Eight 
thousand people a year see the great forty-inch 
telescope in operation. Notable work has been 
done at the Observatory on the double stars, 
the stellar clusters, and the Milky Way. But the 
Observatory needs a new mounting for the 
twelve-inch telescope, which could be provided 
for about fifteen thousand dollars, and a brick 
cylinder and dome for the Zeiss Ultra- Violet 
Camera, which would cost two thousand. Facili- 
ties for astronomical instruction on the Quad- 
rangles of the University are also much needed. 

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These are some of the definite needs felt by 
various departments. A gift of twenty-five dol- 
lars will supply some of them. Others will require 
as many thousands. Scholarships have sometimes 
been established in the University by groups of 
friends, and perhaps groups of alumni or alumni 
clubs may be interested in adopting the work of 
some department and making it their particular 
concern. The Director of the Libraries, the 
Secretary of the Alumni Council, and the Secre- 
tary to the President would be glad to put alumni 
in touch with specific opportunities large or small 
for helping to build the University that is to be. 



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